双语阅读英语外刊精讲：指纹被人盗用了怎么办

2019-03-31 11:14:00来源：酷学英语

　　This “back to analog” moment isn't just a knee-jerk, stopgap reaction to a short-term problem. It's a rational response to our increasingly insecure Internet, and we are going to see more of it ahead.

　　As part of our research, in 2015 we developed a scenario for the not-so-distant future called “the New Normal,” in which consumers' baseline belief has flipped from “the internet is basically safe unless I do something stupid” to “the internet is fundamentally insecure, a dangerous neighborhood in which my safety is always at risk.” The impetus for the flipping in that scenario was a flurry of larger, ever more visible hacking attacks — of personal email accounts (Colin Powell and John Podesta) and corporate data (Yahoo and Sony), not to mention bank account information. Last week's ransomware attack may start to tip a significant proportion of Internet users over the edge.

　　单词练习

　　1.ransomware n. 赎金木马 a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid

　　2.rightfully adv. 无疑地

　　3.capture v.捕捉

　　4.scale n.规模

　　5.revert v. 回归到

　　6.analog n.类似物

　　7.knee-jerk adj. 膝跳反射的 (of a response) automatic and unthinking

　　8.stopgap n.临时应急措施

　　9.flip v.翻转

　　10. tip somebody over the edge: v. 让某人不开心

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